Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle)
@roojinhabibi.org
Law prof at @uottawa.ca @ottawahealthlaw.ca in international & public law, global/public health, & human rights • Iranian-Canadian • love rescue dogs, cortados and waterfront runs • my works at www.roojinhabibi.org
The International Health Regulations are getting a makeover this Friday, and that means parties will have to establish or designate a new "National IHR Authority".
Cédric Apercé (Resolve to Save Lives) & I write in BMJ Global Health on why this new obligation matters.
🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...
Cédric Apercé (Resolve to Save Lives) & I write in BMJ Global Health on why this new obligation matters.
🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...
September 15, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The International Health Regulations are getting a makeover this Friday, and that means parties will have to establish or designate a new "National IHR Authority".
Cédric Apercé (Resolve to Save Lives) & I write in BMJ Global Health on why this new obligation matters.
🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...
Cédric Apercé (Resolve to Save Lives) & I write in BMJ Global Health on why this new obligation matters.
🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/9...
…and a bonus to get to cheer on the Hintonburg 5K racers post-run 👏🏼🎉
July 13, 2025 at 1:57 PM
…and a bonus to get to cheer on the Hintonburg 5K racers post-run 👏🏼🎉
Morning run along the Kichi Zībī with woman’s best friend 💚
July 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Morning run along the Kichi Zībī with woman’s best friend 💚
In awe of the brilliant, generous, and thoughtful humans I get to call my colleagues.
Thank you so much @matiangai.bsky.social and Maryland Carey Law for the warm hospitality and continued kindness!
…and stoked for my signed copy of Sirleaf’s award-winning “Race and National Security” 🙌🏽
Thank you so much @matiangai.bsky.social and Maryland Carey Law for the warm hospitality and continued kindness!
…and stoked for my signed copy of Sirleaf’s award-winning “Race and National Security” 🙌🏽
July 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In awe of the brilliant, generous, and thoughtful humans I get to call my colleagues.
Thank you so much @matiangai.bsky.social and Maryland Carey Law for the warm hospitality and continued kindness!
…and stoked for my signed copy of Sirleaf’s award-winning “Race and National Security” 🙌🏽
Thank you so much @matiangai.bsky.social and Maryland Carey Law for the warm hospitality and continued kindness!
…and stoked for my signed copy of Sirleaf’s award-winning “Race and National Security” 🙌🏽
Ottawa runs in the summer 💚
July 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Ottawa runs in the summer 💚
Lovely to be back in beautiful Geneva this week for the UNIGE Summer School in Global Health Law.
It’s been heartening to meet an engaged and brilliant cohort of students and reconnect with wonderful colleagues
@benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @pedroav.bsky.social & Lisa Forman
It’s been heartening to meet an engaged and brilliant cohort of students and reconnect with wonderful colleagues
@benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @pedroav.bsky.social & Lisa Forman
June 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Lovely to be back in beautiful Geneva this week for the UNIGE Summer School in Global Health Law.
It’s been heartening to meet an engaged and brilliant cohort of students and reconnect with wonderful colleagues
@benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @pedroav.bsky.social & Lisa Forman
It’s been heartening to meet an engaged and brilliant cohort of students and reconnect with wonderful colleagues
@benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @pedroav.bsky.social & Lisa Forman
It seemed a lonely journey until the end… then my tribe came out in full force!
PhD @osgoodenews.bsky.social: done + defended with no revisions.
Thank you to all who were part of this day, from near and far. You made it sweeter and far more memorable than I expected.
Summer can officially begin!
PhD @osgoodenews.bsky.social: done + defended with no revisions.
Thank you to all who were part of this day, from near and far. You made it sweeter and far more memorable than I expected.
Summer can officially begin!
June 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It seemed a lonely journey until the end… then my tribe came out in full force!
PhD @osgoodenews.bsky.social: done + defended with no revisions.
Thank you to all who were part of this day, from near and far. You made it sweeter and far more memorable than I expected.
Summer can officially begin!
PhD @osgoodenews.bsky.social: done + defended with no revisions.
Thank you to all who were part of this day, from near and far. You made it sweeter and far more memorable than I expected.
Summer can officially begin!
It was a pleasure meeting new colleagues and old friends at the annual @acpd-calt.bsky.social conference hosted by @usask.bsky.social College of Law.
I shared some reflections from a study I’ve been developing, exploring common threads and best practices in teaching public health law across Canada.
I shared some reflections from a study I’ve been developing, exploring common threads and best practices in teaching public health law across Canada.
June 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
It was a pleasure meeting new colleagues and old friends at the annual @acpd-calt.bsky.social conference hosted by @usask.bsky.social College of Law.
I shared some reflections from a study I’ve been developing, exploring common threads and best practices in teaching public health law across Canada.
I shared some reflections from a study I’ve been developing, exploring common threads and best practices in teaching public health law across Canada.
Lovely few days in Boston for the Health Law Professors Conference @bulaw.bsky.social. A first for me at #HLPC & in BOS.
I spoke alongside @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @safsak.bsky.social Lisa Forman & Neil Sircar on human rights in global health law reforms & caught some sights in between 🌹
I spoke alongside @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @safsak.bsky.social Lisa Forman & Neil Sircar on human rights in global health law reforms & caught some sights in between 🌹
June 5, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Lovely few days in Boston for the Health Law Professors Conference @bulaw.bsky.social. A first for me at #HLPC & in BOS.
I spoke alongside @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @safsak.bsky.social Lisa Forman & Neil Sircar on human rights in global health law reforms & caught some sights in between 🌹
I spoke alongside @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @safsak.bsky.social Lisa Forman & Neil Sircar on human rights in global health law reforms & caught some sights in between 🌹
Wrapped the final impact conference of the Trudeau Foundation at @banffcentre.bsky.social this week.
Three event-packed years as a 2022 PETF Scholar flew by…and in serendipitous timing, I also submitted my dissertation!
Three event-packed years as a 2022 PETF Scholar flew by…and in serendipitous timing, I also submitted my dissertation!
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Wrapped the final impact conference of the Trudeau Foundation at @banffcentre.bsky.social this week.
Three event-packed years as a 2022 PETF Scholar flew by…and in serendipitous timing, I also submitted my dissertation!
Three event-packed years as a 2022 PETF Scholar flew by…and in serendipitous timing, I also submitted my dissertation!
In @bmj.com, Kumanan Wilson & I argue Canada’s next federal govt must put global health on par with the economy—and step up as others turn inward. The 78th World Health Assembly next week is the first chance to lead.
Our op ed below ⬇️
cc: @ottawahealthlaw.ca
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Our op ed below ⬇️
cc: @ottawahealthlaw.ca
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
May 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In @bmj.com, Kumanan Wilson & I argue Canada’s next federal govt must put global health on par with the economy—and step up as others turn inward. The 78th World Health Assembly next week is the first chance to lead.
Our op ed below ⬇️
cc: @ottawahealthlaw.ca
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Our op ed below ⬇️
cc: @ottawahealthlaw.ca
www.bmj.com/content/389/...
Orchids are among the hardiest indoor plants there is! Don’t throw your orchid out after the first bloom - it’ll rebloom for you again and again, with just a bit of water every week.
I love this resilience in this one. Circa 2017 
I love this resilience in this one. Circa 2017 
May 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Orchids are among the hardiest indoor plants there is! Don’t throw your orchid out after the first bloom - it’ll rebloom for you again and again, with just a bit of water every week.
I love this resilience in this one. Circa 2017 
I love this resilience in this one. Circa 2017 
Fantastic analysis by @saludporderecho.bsky.social on how the consensus text of the pandemic treaty stacks up in ambition against the base scenario and the treaty's zero draft in terms of:
➡️ R&D
➡️ PABS
➡️ Supply chains
➡️ Tech transfer
➡️ Regional production
🔗 saludporderecho.org/en/pandemic-...
➡️ R&D
➡️ PABS
➡️ Supply chains
➡️ Tech transfer
➡️ Regional production
🔗 saludporderecho.org/en/pandemic-...
April 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Fantastic analysis by @saludporderecho.bsky.social on how the consensus text of the pandemic treaty stacks up in ambition against the base scenario and the treaty's zero draft in terms of:
➡️ R&D
➡️ PABS
➡️ Supply chains
➡️ Tech transfer
➡️ Regional production
🔗 saludporderecho.org/en/pandemic-...
➡️ R&D
➡️ PABS
➡️ Supply chains
➡️ Tech transfer
➡️ Regional production
🔗 saludporderecho.org/en/pandemic-...
Buried in the PC platform, Poilievre pledges to defund "foreign aid to dictators, terrorists and global bureaucracies."
Unclear who these entities are. If Leslyn Lewis' pandemic treaty fear-mongering is anything to go by, WHO may well be on chopping block.
tinyurl.com/vzrj22su
Unclear who these entities are. If Leslyn Lewis' pandemic treaty fear-mongering is anything to go by, WHO may well be on chopping block.
tinyurl.com/vzrj22su
April 24, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Buried in the PC platform, Poilievre pledges to defund "foreign aid to dictators, terrorists and global bureaucracies."
Unclear who these entities are. If Leslyn Lewis' pandemic treaty fear-mongering is anything to go by, WHO may well be on chopping block.
tinyurl.com/vzrj22su
Unclear who these entities are. If Leslyn Lewis' pandemic treaty fear-mongering is anything to go by, WHO may well be on chopping block.
tinyurl.com/vzrj22su
Pandemic treaty and IHR amendment negotiations marked a rare departure from past practice for @who.int & states.
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social, @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social, @alexandrafinch.bsky.social & I examine global health law's evolving normative landscape.
tinyurl.com/mptjk9tr
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social, @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social, @alexandrafinch.bsky.social & I examine global health law's evolving normative landscape.
tinyurl.com/mptjk9tr
April 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Pandemic treaty and IHR amendment negotiations marked a rare departure from past practice for @who.int & states.
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social, @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social, @alexandrafinch.bsky.social & I examine global health law's evolving normative landscape.
tinyurl.com/mptjk9tr
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social, @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social, @alexandrafinch.bsky.social & I examine global health law's evolving normative landscape.
tinyurl.com/mptjk9tr
Great to see the new Journal of Global Health Law featured at the @elgarpublishing.bsky.social stand at the @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting!
April 16, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Great to see the new Journal of Global Health Law featured at the @elgarpublishing.bsky.social stand at the @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting!
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social: our assessment of the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
April 14, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Now out in @jlme-journal.bsky.social: our assessment of the 2024 amendments to the International Health Regulations
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Going to @asilorg.bsky.social's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC next week?
Don't miss the Global Health Law Interest Group's 2nd Business Meeting next Friday at 2pm.
We have lots of IG news to share and we'll hear from @maybarduk.bsky.social on legal challenges to funding cuts in global health 👇
Don't miss the Global Health Law Interest Group's 2nd Business Meeting next Friday at 2pm.
We have lots of IG news to share and we'll hear from @maybarduk.bsky.social on legal challenges to funding cuts in global health 👇
April 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Going to @asilorg.bsky.social's Annual Meeting in Washington, DC next week?
Don't miss the Global Health Law Interest Group's 2nd Business Meeting next Friday at 2pm.
We have lots of IG news to share and we'll hear from @maybarduk.bsky.social on legal challenges to funding cuts in global health 👇
Don't miss the Global Health Law Interest Group's 2nd Business Meeting next Friday at 2pm.
We have lots of IG news to share and we'll hear from @maybarduk.bsky.social on legal challenges to funding cuts in global health 👇
Lovely to see the local bookstore giving a S/O to the brilliant @jcyliew.bsky.social 💫
March 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Lovely to see the local bookstore giving a S/O to the brilliant @jcyliew.bsky.social 💫
Looking forward to joining @alexandraphelan.bsky.social and Katniss Li for this @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting panel on multilateral treaty-making across the pandemics, plastics and cybercrime spaces. If you'll be at ASIL, we hope to see you there!
➡️ April 26 @ 2pm
➡️ April 26 @ 2pm
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Looking forward to joining @alexandraphelan.bsky.social and Katniss Li for this @asilorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting panel on multilateral treaty-making across the pandemics, plastics and cybercrime spaces. If you'll be at ASIL, we hope to see you there!
➡️ April 26 @ 2pm
➡️ April 26 @ 2pm
Spotted on my Sunday run along the Rideau: a conference of the birds, including the ever majestic Blue Heron 😍
March 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Spotted on my Sunday run along the Rideau: a conference of the birds, including the ever majestic Blue Heron 😍
We were delighted to welcome @uocommonlaw.bsky.social ’s @yybrandonc.bsky.social in my public health law class yesterday.
Much of the course focuses on law as a tool to advance public health - but Prof. Chen masterfully guided us to think critically about that proposition, esp. in immigration law.
Much of the course focuses on law as a tool to advance public health - but Prof. Chen masterfully guided us to think critically about that proposition, esp. in immigration law.
March 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
We were delighted to welcome @uocommonlaw.bsky.social ’s @yybrandonc.bsky.social in my public health law class yesterday.
Much of the course focuses on law as a tool to advance public health - but Prof. Chen masterfully guided us to think critically about that proposition, esp. in immigration law.
Much of the course focuses on law as a tool to advance public health - but Prof. Chen masterfully guided us to think critically about that proposition, esp. in immigration law.
Amid all that's gone sideways in the world, there's an ancient celebration that still makes perfect sense.
From our family to yours, happy Nowrooz and spring equinox. May this be a season of hope, courage, and renewal for all.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
From our family to yours, happy Nowrooz and spring equinox. May this be a season of hope, courage, and renewal for all.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
March 20, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Amid all that's gone sideways in the world, there's an ancient celebration that still makes perfect sense.
From our family to yours, happy Nowrooz and spring equinox. May this be a season of hope, courage, and renewal for all.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
From our family to yours, happy Nowrooz and spring equinox. May this be a season of hope, courage, and renewal for all.
www.un.org/en/observanc...